ROMA – He will also get vaccinated in the workplace. This was announced by the ministers of health Roberto Speranza and Labor Andrea Orlando during the round table with the social partners to update the safety protocol.
“Yesterday they were administered over 230 thousand doses of vaccine“, began Speranza.” There is a tendency in these hours to strengthen our capacity. And we will soon have a surge. We expect more 4.5 million doses already in the last week of March. And then in the second quarter more than 50 million doses, including Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson. We must accelerate according to the priorities we have set ourselves: the personal data groups are the guiding element because we must protect the weakest and most fragile. In non-working age – from 70 years upwards – we register 8.5 deaths out of 10. And 6 deaths out of 10 are over 80, while 2.5 out of 10 between 70 and 80 years “.
In compliance with the priorities, the space for vaccinating in the company is also opened. “We have come a long way, but now we have a reasoned confidence to accelerate this process,” explains Speranza. “The possibility to vaccinate at our farms involving the competent doctors, there are all the conditions even in the near future, once some knots have been resolved. We will soon have a suitable number of doses not to make an operation of image but of substance to vaccinate a part of the citizens and do it in complete safety “.
But how will the vaccination take place on the farm? The Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando explains. “We will define the minimum essential requirements to ensure safe vaccinations, even with mobile structures. The social partners – businesses and trade unions – will then share them. “Specifically, the minister explains that it will start with medium-large companies, over 50 employees, and with the categories of workers most exposed to the risk of contagion, as identified by Inail.
“It is assumed that single or grouped companies can propose to regional health services a project to establish a territorial vaccination center capable of respecting the minimum standards,” says Orlando. Practically, the company gives its willingness to become a vaccination hub and at the same time provides the number of workers willing to get vaccinated. “The commissioner structure undertakes to deliver the vaccines to the Regions who then sort them to the vaccination centers and then to the companies”.
In order not to disadvantage small businesses, large companies can “host” them. But before reaching this, Orlando concludes, “in agreement with the Ministry of Health, Inail and Commissioner must adopt rules for the vaccination course, vaccine distribution and logistics, staff training, management of adverse events, burdens for employers “.
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